MOTION ON NOTICE

At the Council meeting of July 9, 2002, Councillor Clarke submitted the following motion. Councillor Bass called Notice under Section 7.2 of the Procedure By-law.

1. Council's Intervention in Matters Beyond its Legal Purview (File 1250)

THAT Council reaffirm its motion of February 14, 1984, regarding issues outside of Council's jurisdiction:

THAT WHEREAS debate on matters of global politics at the civic level is invariably divisive;

AND WHEREAS City Council has no power to legislate at the level of senior governments;

AND WHEREAS we were not elected by taxpayers on account of our personal opinions on the politics of the United States, Nicaragua or any other country;

AND WHEREAS we are each at personal liberty to propound personal convictions in other arenas;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT motions which are beyond our legal purview be omitted from future agendas of City Council.

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